Author : Östen Dahl
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 577/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Circum-Baltic Languages by : Östen Dahl
Download or read book The Circum-Baltic Languages written by Östen Dahl. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. In Volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts.
